![]() Faced with the many challenges of being a Muslim refugee, she questioned stereotypes and built bridges with her classmates and in her community. ![]() ![]() Four years later, after a painstaking vetting process, her family achieved refugee status and arrived in Arlington, Virginia.Īged twelve, penniless, speaking only Somali and having missed out on years of schooling, Ilhan rolled up her sleeves, determined to find her American dream. They ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya, where Ilhan says she came to understand the deep meaning of hunger and death. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided to flee Mogadishu. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. ![]()
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